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NEGROES AND NEGRO "SLAVERY:" 

The First an Inferior Race— the Latter its Normal Condition. 
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similar ones, separating the Negro from the White Man. Why, when, or how 
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be a different human being, physically and mentally, his proper relations to 
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showing the impossibility of interunion, like cognate branches of the white 
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'* ABOLITION AND SECESSION, 

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INTRODUCTORY. 

After eighty yeara of peace, progress and boundless prosperity, the great 
American people find themselves in a civil war the most stupendous and 
frightful recorded in history. What does it mean ? This stupendous in- 
quiry, hitherto utterly hidden from the great-hearted, honest and patriotic 
masses, the writer proposes to answer. And to do this satisfactorily, he 
has divided the subject into three separate portions, thus enabling the 
reader to obtain clearer views of all phases of the stupendous question 
now shaking the continent from centre to circumference. 

First— He will demonstrate that negroes are a different and subordinate 
epeciea of maufcmd, and in their normal condition at the South, and there- 
fore a warfare oa so-called slavery is a warfare on society, and "impartial 
freedom," immediate or "ultimate," either now or a thousand years hence, 
must necessarily involve the destruction of that section. 

Second — It will be shown that political anti-slaveryiem is the cause of 
secession, and though W3 may not think it valid or sufficient, those whose 
interests, whoso liberty, whose families and firesides are involved, assumo 
otherwise, and present to the world every possible proof of their intention 
to resist an anti-slavery policy, even to the extent of immolation or utter 
extermination, if need be. 

Third— Finally, it will be shown that " crushing out" political anti-slavery- 
ism, or the removal of the cause, is the only natural or possible cure for 
secession; and when this is done, and the Constitution construed to include 
white men alone in the ranks of citizenship, and the liberty and civilization 
of America are thus rendered secure forever, that the men of the South will 
themselves "restore the Union." 



ABOLITION AND SECESSION. 



PART I. 

THK CAUSK. 

The human creation 13 a group or family composed of several species, 
eome six or seven of which are sufficiently known to he classed and defined 
with absolute certainty. Among all the innumerable beings composing the 
organic world, there ia no such thing as a single species, and the absurd 
dogma of a single human species or race, so universally accepted in modern 
times, is as irrational and utterly in conflict with the fixed and fundamental 
laws of organic life, as the idea or notion of a stick with a single end is in 
conflict with the laws of physics. Superficial and ignorant minds fancy 
that if negroes are not Wacfc-white men, or colored men, as they term it, 
why, then, forsooth, they must be something midway between us and ani- 
mals, as if because the rattlesnake was not the same as the gartersnake, 
why, of course, it must be half a bird or fish, or some other monstrosity, 
midway between snakes and some other form of life 1 

We see all about u«, every day, on every side, the manifestations of the 
simple and fixed laws of organic life. All are grouped together in families. 
The eagle and the owl are both birds, as are pigeons, robins, &c , but 
different birds. So with fishes, the shad, salmon, trout, pickerel, &c, are all 
fishes — but different species, of course. So with serpents — the black snake, 
the adder, moccasin, garter and rattlesnake, are all alike snakes, but what 
a world of difference between the harmless little reptile of our gardens and 
the rattlesnake, that venomous and terrible creature that strikes and kills 
in an hour ! 

Again : among dogs it is seen they are all dogs, all with the capacity of 
interunion ; yet what an almost boundless difference between the graceful 
and intelligent hound or pointer, and the brutal and stolid bull-dog 1 
Can any one bo so stupid or so wicked as to try to educate the bull dog into 
the habits of the hound ? or to force them to live the same life, to manifest 
the same qualities, to compel these creatures, whom God has made different 
and designed for different purposes, to fulfil the same purpose? Surely 
there is as great a relative difference between the Caucasian and the negro 
as there is between the hound and bulldog, and to force the former i-ifo 
"impartial freedom" involves as gross and as awful an impiety as to strive 
to equalize the latter, or to compel beings whom God has made different to 
manifest the same qualities and to live out the same life. But it ia not ne- 
cessary to multiply words on a subject of fact -demonstrative, physical fact. 
All that is needed to a rational mind, or even to the lowest grade of intelli- 
gence, is the Fimple sta ement of these facts, with the unavoidable infer- 
ences that belong to them, to convince the wildest and the most bewildered 



THE CAUSE. 3 

among us of the awful error under which they are laboring in respect to the 
social order and domestic institutions of the South. 

As has been said, the human creation is a family or form of life composed 
of some fcis or nioie species. L:ke all other families or forms of life, they 
have a generic resemblance, but are specifically different. This difference is 
uniform and absolute, fixed forever by the hand of God, and no human ig- 
norance, folly or impiety can ever modify it to the millionth part of an ele- 
mentary atom. The difference in the physical— the mere organic structure 
— pervades the entire moral and intellectual being, so that comprehending 
the former we can easily measure the latter, or in other words, the physical 
differences between the white man and the negro represent exactly the intel- 
lectual. 

As with all other genera, there is a certain capacity of interunion in the 
several human species, less, however, in the instance of Caucasians and 
negroes than in other races, for these two occupy the extremes of the 
generic column, the former being at the head and the latter at the base of 
this column. There is always an imperfect vitality in the mulatto and mon- 
grel verging to absolute sterility, and the fourth generation of the former is 
as absolutely forbidden to muluply itself as the mule in the first generation. 

Such, briefly presented, are the fundamental and everlasting facts— fixed 
forever by the hand of God — the negro is a different and widely different 
human species, the most inferior as the white man is the most superior 
of all the human races. Why this is so, or when or how the Almighty 
Creator saw fit, in His boundless wisdom and infinite goodness, to thus 
ordain things, we do not know, nor ever can know. It is hidden from 
us, as is the beginning and the ending of our own individual existence, 
and the man or the men who seek to know it— to penetrate the counsels 
of the Eternal— to know when, or how, or why the human creation exists, 
as it now stands before us, palpable to the sense and unchangable in its 
diversities, commit a similar folly to that of the individual man who might 
eeek to know either the beginning or the end of his own existence. It is 
a fact, existing, unchangable and everlasting, while the organic world itself 
exists, that the human creation consists of several separate species of men, 
differirg just as widely as do species in other and all other forms of life, 
and to shut our eyes to this fact, and blindly, stuudly and wickedly assume 
them all to be a single species, we must not only continue to inflict a terrible 
punishment on ourselves, but we shall richly merit such punishment. 

This negro race is here, must always remain hero, for it is wanted here, 
and if some infinite power should interpose and suddenly annihilate it, we 
would instantly set to work, fit out ships and replace them by fresh acces- 
sions from Africa, otherwise some seventy degrees of lttitude in the centre 
of the Continent must remain a desert waste, and their natural products, 
so absolutely essential to the progresa and the happiness of mankind, 
would be lost to the world. Furthermore, the negro, isolated in Africa, 
is, and must be, a useless, nonproducing savage. His organism as utterly 



4 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. 

forbids anything else as that of the quadruped forbids an upright posture 
and all human experience is in accord with these physiological facts. We 
must, therefore, admit that God designed the negro for juxtaposition with 
the superior white man, otherwise he would be created in vain, a supposition, 
of course, not to be tolerated a, moment. Moreover, his wonderful capacity 
of imitation — that striking quality which those ignorant of his nature have 
often mistaken for real capacity — is a positive proof that God designed him 
to exist in juxtaposition with the superior race. The social relations be- 
tween beiDgs so widely different in their endowments as the Caucasian and 
negro, aud the purposes the Creator has assigned them, should not be, as 
indeed they never have been, mistaken by those actually in contact with 
these negroes. That the subordinate negro must occupy a subordinate 
pocial position, is an unavoidable truth ; but, it is replied, it does not 
follow that he should be a glave. Of course, it does not, but what is a slave? 
A)l God's creatures, human and animal, have a natural right to live out the 
life He has adapted them to. — When they do this they multiply and are 
happy ; when they do not, they are miserable and die. When they live the 
life that they are designed for, they are free ; when they do not, they are 
slaves. These obvious truths only need to be applied tp negroes to de- 
termine the point whether they are slaves in Massachusetts or free in 
Virginia. In Boston, according to the statement of the City Register, the 
births among these poor creatures, for five years past, are 124, while the 
deaths for the same period are 37G, thus showing that it is only a question 
of time when Puritanical and bastard philanthropy shall have destroyed 
all the negroes of that " enlightened" commonwealth. On the contrary, 
tho negroes in Virginia, for this same period, have multiplied even faster 
than the whites themselves 1 

Similar results &ro universally demonstrated by the Federal census in all 
the States of the Union. The subordinate negro is in a subordinate social 
position, and rapidly multiplies ; or he is forcibly thrust into the position of 
the superior white man, and rapidly perishes. Or in other words, the negro 
in the South lives in accord with the nature God has given him, and is 
happy, and rapidly increases in numbers ; while in the North he is forced 
into conflict with all his natural wants, and miserably perishes. Tfie term 
slave is, therefore, a misnomer, a word borrowed from Europe, expressing 
a certain relation of white men to each other a thousand years ago, and 
senseless when applied to the South. 

Such are the facts a3 regard the negro. — In respect to ourselves, the 
presence of this natural substratum of society excludes all those artificial 
and unnatural distinctions among the dominant race, borrowed from the 
Old World, and secures freedom and equality for the masses. Our whole 
political and party history presents one continuous proof of this vital truth. 
The planter or so called slaveholder of tho South is an agriculturist, pro- 
ducer, indeed a laborer, for it is his brain, directing the hands of the negro, 
that constitutes labor at the South. His interests are identical with the 



THE CAUSE. 5 

producer of the North, and these classes, in the form of the Democratic 
party, have governed the country, acquired all its Territories and fought 
all its battles for sixty years past ; indeed, southern " slaveholders," with 
their natural allies, as Mr. Jefferson termed the laboring classes of the 
North, have made the Republic what it is, or rather what it was, when Mr. 
Lincoln was elected to the Presidency by a moiety or fraction of the northern 
people. But though this government was made by so-called slaveholders, 
though Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, nearly all the great men of the 
country, were the natural offspring of a society founded on Democratic 
principles, and the natural distinctions of race, though three fourths of the 
votes in ■Congress against national banks, protective tariffs and other 
schemes for plundering labor of its rewards and enslaving the working 
clashes of the North, have been those of " slaveholders," though all the 
Presidential vetoes against these schemes were those of southern Presi- 
dents ; in a word, though the *' slaveholders" of the South are the natural 
allies, and have always defended the rights of the northern producing 
classes, antagonist forces, acting through the ignorance, misconception and 
absolute delusion of certain classes in the North, have long endangered the 
peace of the country, and at last precipitated it into the present frightful 
crisis. 

These forees are who n y foreign in their origin. Europeans, ignorant of 
the races of this continent — the Indian, negro, &c, — imagine them similar 
beings to themselves, except in color, and naturally entitled to the same 
rights, therefore, when held in subordination to the white man, and denied 
these rights, of course imagine them slaves. They rarely see a negro, 
and suppose the black tkia, wooly hair, thick lips, &c, that they read of, are 
the results of climate or of many jears of savagery, slavery and other imagi- 
nary causes of physical degradation. Tbia notion, or this conception, eo 
natural under the circumstances to the European mind, has been borrowed 
from the Old World by those among us who read British books and form 
their ideas on European models. And instead of enlightening Europe on 
the subject, or instead of demonstrating to them that the negro is a negro 
and is not a Caucasian or " colored man, : ' even our ethnologists and men of 
science have passively assented to the absurd assumption, while all our 
book writers, editors, &c, have made this assumption the starting point of 
all their reasoning on the subject of to-called slavery. And until a very 
recent period, even those who assumed to defend the social order of tho 
South did so on the basis of this foreign assumption of a Wac7<:-white man, 
having the same natural right to liberty as other men, or as having tho 
same natural rights as themselves. Thus is witnessed the strange, and 
indeed utterly disgraceful anomaly of American society convulsed and 
American institutions endangered by an idea net merely European, in fact, 
but that would be an impossible conception to the American mind were we 
wholly isolated from Europe. The negro is a different and inferior man just 
as an owl is a different and inferior bird to the 6aglc, or as the bull dog is a 



C ABOLITION AND SECESSION. 

different and inferior dog to the hound, and were we wholly shut out from 
intercourse with Europe, it would, of course, he aa absolutely impossible 
to conceive of a Wacfc-white man, or that the negro icas a man like ourselves 
except in color, as it ia to imagine an owl an eagle or a bull dcg a hound. 

Here, then, is the great, fundamental, absolute and unmistakable cause 
of all our troubles— the palpable and elementary error of the northern 
mind— the fatal and deplorable origin of the popular delusion— the original 
Btarting-point of that wide-spread, often well-meant, but always pestilent 
and malignant "philanthropy," which has corrupted northern intelligence, 
patriotism, and even, to a certain extent, the instincts of race, and led large 
numbers of the northern people into a blind, bitter and unrelenting warfare 
on their brethren of the South. 

But though this European conception, or rather misconception, of the 
negro is natural enough, indeed could not be otherwise with those ignorant 
of all races save their own, it would not carry with it any evil or mischievous 
influence, did not circumstances connect it with the political interests of 
Europe, and especially with those of the English aristocracy. Prior to the 
American Revolution of 1776, no one ever heard of an Abolitionist, or that 
" negro Blavery" waa wrong, or that it was aa evil that somo day should bo 
removed from the world, and if these States had remained in subjection to 
England and in harmonious relation with the British aristocracy, it ia alto- 
gether unlikely that there would now be such a thing as an Abolitionist 
either in the Old World or the New. All the nations of Europe are Caucasian 
— white men, the same race, unless perhaps a few thousand Laplanders in 
Norway. Except France, whose condition ia exceptional, if not abnormal, 
all these nations have the same system, the same social order, the same 
general principles of government, and though England pretends to be free 
and thinks Russia despotic, there is little or no difference in the actual con- 
dition of the masses of their people. 

Society ia divided by artificial distinctions into kings, bourgeoise and 
peasants, in fact into the few and the many — the few who produce 7iothing s 
yet enjoy everything, and the many who produce everything but enjoy 
nothing. They are all the same race, created free and equal, sent into the 
world with the same wants, the same faculties, in short, the same nature, 
and therefore were designed by an Almighty and beneficent Creator for the 
same purpose, to enjoy the same happiness and to perform the same duties. 
But from tho instant they come into the world, the system cr social order 
takes possession of them and forces them inf o widely different conditions 
— the few into idleness and luxury, the many into livea of ignorance, toil 
and brutality, differing very little from the animala that they labor with. 
One man of en owng a whole county, and turns several thousand acres of 
fertile land into a park for deer, where he may " eDJoy the pleasures of tho 
chase," while twenty thousand of his brethren, his own kith and kin, white 
men and women whom God created his equals and designed for the same 
happiness as himself, are denied enough of the soil of their native land to 



TIIE CAUSE. 7 

bury them in when dead I Half a million of hereditary aristocrats, with, 
perhaps, four or five millions of shopocracy or so-called middleclass, which 
serve as a sort of police agency, and enjoy a certain portion of the plunder, 
constitute the governing force, the real and only " England ;" while the 
great, ignorant, toiling, voiceless and voteless millions are mere beasts of 
burthen to their brethren — to those whom God created their equals and 
designed for the same purposes a3 themselves — but who, through human in- 
ventions of " Church" and " State," aro artificially elevated into superior 
beings. Nor does England, except in degree, differ from the rest of Europe, 
though the few are doubtless the richest while the many are more abject in 
their poverty than elsewhere. It is the system, the condition which has 
come down from barbarous and semi-barbarous times ; the few are artificially 
elevated and the many artificially degraded, so that the latter are regarded, 
and doubtless regard themselves, as beings of a " lower order," as indeed 
they are universally designated in England. That a society thus existing, or 
that the ruling class should regard the masses as no better than American 
negroes, and should, therefore, imagine the negro hardly dealt with when 
denied the " freedom" of the English or European laborer, is consistent, 
and, under the circumstances, perfectly logical. 

American society, resting on the natural distinctions of race, fixed forever 
by the hand of the Almighty, is irreconcilable with theirs, and though there 
may be outward peace, the conflict is none the less deadly between conditions 
or systems of society thus vitally antagonistic. We are twenty-five millions 
of white men, whom God has created equal, in juxtaposition with four mil- 
lions of negroes, whom He has created inferior, and our system, State and 
national, is based on these fixed, unchanging and everlasting facts. The 
white citizenship are naturally equal, and, therefore, enjoy equal rights ; tho 
negroes are naturally inferior, and, therefore, occupy a position of social 
inferiority corresponding with their wants and the nature God has given 
them. Between us and the old world, or, between us and England, who is 
the leader and bulwark of the old order, there is no peace or possible com- 
promise. The iew must expect to abandon their privileges over the many, 
must give up their wealth and power over the masses, and reorganize 
society on a Democratic basis like our own, or they must break down the 
American system thus in contrast and contradiction to their own. For- 
tunately for the temporary preservation of the aristocracy, the ignorance of 
their people enabled them to strike their dead best blows at us in the name 
of liberty and under the pretence of philanthropy. The negro " slave" of 
America was assumed to be a fcZaefc-white man, or man like themselves except 
in color, and consequently a slave, and, therefore, the American system, with 
one-six-h of i's population denied all rights whatever, was, to the ignorant 
European mind, worse even than their oppressive system of kings and aris- 
tocrats. The writers and supporters of monarchy had thus a boundless field 
for denunciation of our and eulogy of their own system, whim, whatever the 
practical consequences in theory, seemed vastly more liberal and humane 



8 ABOLITION 1XD SECESSION. 

than American Democracy resting on a supposed slavery. And, if the 
premises or the assumptions were sound, the inferences were indeed un- 
avoidable. If the negro, except in color, were a man like ourselves, with 
the same nature and the same wants as the white man, then everything 
imagined by the Abolition writers for the past sixty years would, or might 
have been, true enough. But the government, the ruling force, the aris- 
tocracy, were impelled not alone by these writers, but from the necessities 
of their condition, to make war on us, and instinct prompted them to strike 
at " negro slavery" as the vital principle of our system, the foundation on 
which rested the entire structure of Democratic institutions. 

It was only when Jefferson declared the immortal and everlasting truth, 
that all (white) men are created free and equal, and a government or politi- 
cal system based on this truth, or rather this fact, was organized, that 
English writers discovered the- frightful wrong of " negro slavery," and 
English statesmen began that crusade in behalf, or pretended behalf, of the 
lower races of this continent, that has worked out such stupendous results, 
and, at last, has culminated in the quasi destruction of the American Union. 

They have expended some five hundred millions of treasure in this cru- 
sade, and abolished the natural order of society in the whole tropical centre 
of the continent, except Cuba and Porto Eico. The supremacy of the 
white man abolished, and the negro left without guidance or control, re- 
lapses, of course, into his original Africanism, and if we are to suppose that 
Americana are never to be permitted to restore the normal order or the 
natural relations of the races, a time must come, or would soon come, when 
some seventy degrees of latitude, right in the heart of America, must be 
occupied by a huge Africanism or heathenism like that presided over by the 
King of Dahomey and other African savages. 

But all these deplorable results, the ruin of industry, production, civili- 
zation, in the centre of the continent, with the decay and ruin of all that is 
healthy and desirable in human society, in the heart of the New World, the 
vast expenditure of treasure, thua forcing the British laborer to take the 
bread from the mouths of hia own children to pay the interest on money 
Bquandered on the American negro — the loss to human welfare of those 
vast products of the tropica which, sixty yeara ago, made Jamaica, San 
Domingo, &c, centres of trade and commerce — the actual destruction of 
something like one million of negro livea in the vain attempt to put down 
the " slave trade," and the rapidly approaching Africanism of those islands 
least influenced by the white man — all these boundless and measureless evils 
that the great " anti-slavery" delusion of our times has dragged after it — 
are, after all, trifling, in comparison with that wide-spread corruption of the 
American mind, and utter perversion of American intelligence, which has, 
at last, culminated in civil war. 

So long as the American mind remained untainted and American society 
intact, the diableries of the " anti-slavery" delusion were comparatively 
harmless. Canada and Jamaica alike might ba given over to the huge im- 



THE CAUSE. 9 

posture, the ialands might be destroyed, the genial and naturally luxuriant 
tropics that God designed for t ho Welfare and happiness of his creatures 
might be rendered a desert, the negro permitted to relapse io'o his idle 
andueelees savagery, even the bones and muscles of the over -worked and 
under-fed white slaves of Eugland might be mortgaged, for centuries to 
come, to pay for all this devd's work, so long as the freemen of thia Repub- 
lic were untouched and untainted by the great delusion, for the energy of 
our people and the vitality of our institutions would, sooner or later, over- 
come all this surrounding rottenness, and restore civilization to these wa^- 
cd regions. 

But innumerable books, tracts and pamphlets, and hordes of crazy lec- 
turers, like the frogs of Egypt, have overflowed the land, and deluded the 
eocalltd educated class into a belief or notion, the most absurd, most dis- 
gusting and debasing that ever corrupced the mind or perverted the mural 
instincts of mankind. It is now some thirty years since an open and direct 
effort was made by British agents, and their tools among us, to propa- 
gate these debasing theories. At first a popular instinct prompted the peo- 
ple to mob them, but aftf r a certain time they were thought to be harmless, 
and, by common consent, were permitted to propagate their disgusting 
tomfooleries without let or hindrance. 

Thirty years of steady iteration, however, cf the same absurdities, with 
an apparent profound conviction of their truth, backed by British influ- 
ences, British literature and British policy — indeed, by the common senti- 
ment cf the "civilized world," that is, of kings and their flunkies— these 
absurdities, these miserable tomfooleries of bZaefc-white men and imaginary 
slavery, and Impossible slaveholders, have resided in the formation of 
a political party organized for tho purpose of reducing them to prac'iceS 

Here, then, is the legitimate culmination of the great "anti-elavery" delu- 
sion of half a century, a man elected to the Presidency by a secional party, 
on a platform (as claimed by this party) of avowed hostility to the South. 
Their practical programme isjto prevent ary further "extension of sla- 
very," and thus penning up this negro eltment within its present limits, 
with the prestige of the government on the side of "freedom," a time 
must come when " slavery," or the existing order, must disappear, and 
"impartial freedom" follsw of course. All this, when understood, is sim- 
ply and exactly just this, and nothing else :— They suppose the negro to be a 
black-white man, and they propose to use the government to realize their idea, 
or to transform their theory into fact. Europeans, necessarily, have this con- 
ception of the negro, for they are ignorant of his real nature, and British 
writers, British books, British policy, and British teachings have so cor- 
rupted their minds and perverted their understandings that the leaders of 
thi3 party engage in this monstrous undertaking — to abolish the suprem- 
acy of the white man or the subordination of the negro, and give them the 
same ireedom. 

Of course, if such a thing were possible, there would follow eocial equality 



10 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. 

and universal amalgamation, for though the du r >es of this stupendous delu- 
sion dream of a possible state wb.6re all will enjoy " impartial freedom" 
without amalgamation, no one but an ah? olute lunatic, when they really re- 
uect oa tho f u!j'>«r', ciu t^ 1 -rate such nonsense. 

The pojuUuoo, lima peuned up within existing limits, and "slavery," 
or the s oial relations of the races, so corrupted and disorganized ihas the 
whites jlo longer claim superiority, and uuivereal equali'y, and fraternity, 
is com le'e, what then ? Why, simply this :— "We aro twenty five milbo a 
of whiles in jux'apobitiou with four mdlions of negroes. Tho "auti slavery" 
iJeiihuj prao'icul zed, would, in the Becond goutration, have annihilated 
tho specific i Oj, ro— there would only be mulattoss — tho th.rd generation 
Would end in quadroons, and, as the mulatto of the fourth generation is as 
absolutely s'enle aa Ihe mule, it could only be a question of tini«* Wieu 
everyxirop < f li< gro blood would disappear as entirely as if there bad never 
been a negro ua this continent. — Here, then, would be the final end of the 
stupendous delation of the day. First— The theory or assumption of a 
Wacfe-whitomaa withtho same nature and same right to liber' y as ourselves. 
Second — Tho formation of a party to carry this into practice, through tho 
action of tho Federal Government. Third — The penning up of the negro 
with the consequent debauchment and destruction of the existing relations. 
Fourth — " I mpdrtial freedom," and the consequent social equality and ulti- 
mate amalgamation, ending finally in the total extinction cf tho negro ele- 
ment. If some debauched, idiotic or brutal man should set up tho assump- 
tion that a bull d< g could be made to manifest the qualities of the grey 
hound, aud should set to work to realize his idea, everybody would kunw 
that he might kill the former by his experiments, but could not change the 
eternal order of nature. Or if some philanthropist of the " anti-slavery" 
order should assume that he could change the color, hair, tbo form of tho 
features, the shape of the limbs, or any other physical quality of the negro 
into that cf the white man, every body, however ignorant or deluded on tho 
eubject, would understand its crueby and folly, and know, beyond doub% 
that whde he might kill the poor negro, he could not change or modify, in 
the slightest degree, that which the Almighty Creator hai fixed forever. 
And yet here is a party that proposes to tet aside the handy work of the 
Eternal, and transform four millions of different and subordinate negroes 
into black Caucasians and " impartial freedom" with themselves. 

Bat wlide the "anti-slavery" idea, thus reduced to practice, would ne- 
cessarily end in tbe "ultimate extinction" of the negro el-ment, so awiul a 
sin against " God and humanity" would react in a still greater punishment 
upon the nation guilty of such tran?ce-ndant crime. Of the twenty-five mil- 
lions of whites, four millions would be involved in this admixture of race», 
and as the uncontaminated among them would escape from a laud thus 
doomed, nearly half of this great Keptiblic would bo as Mexico, Central 
America, &c, are now, a mere mongrel mass of diseased and effete human- 
ity, a source of decay and weakness, rendering us tho possible, or indeed tho 



THE CAUSE. 11 

probable, prey or conquest of some European nation. But, aa haa been 
remarked, in the course of time the negro blood would become extinct, 
mongrelism would die out, this hideous ulcer on the body politic would be 
healed, the vaot mass of diseased humanity would slough off, and the nation, 
the typical Caucasian, finally recover itself. Again we should be a nation of 
untainted white men, as we were before this experiment of securing 
" impartial freedom" to negroea began ; but who can measure, or what 
imagination can conceive even, of the intermediate degrrdation, suffering 
and despair involved in it ? Wo can form some notion of the wrong and 
suffering that would be inflicted on the negro by comparison with that which 
would follow, if some " philanthropist" should try the experiment of trans- 
forming his physical nature into that of our own. Of course he would kill 
him in the process, and, in view of his misery, would it not be more humane 
to murder him outright at once? So, too, with the four milhona in the 
South — In comparison with the practical application of the "anti-slavery" 
idea — the freedom, equality, amalgamation, mongrelism, and "ultimate ex- 
tinction" would be immeasurably more cruel than their immediate and 
universal massacre. And if the " anti-slavery" party were to order the six 
hundred thousand brave men in arms, en the Potomac and elsewhere, to 
march and totally exterminate the four milliona of negroes in the South, it 
would be an act of the highest humanity in comparison with using them 
to force "impartial freedom," with all the terrible consequences involved, on 
these subordinate and helpless people. Indeed, we witness all about us an 
approximation to these terrible truths. 

New York has some fifty thousand negroea, who are constantly diminish- 
ing, because, instead of leaving them where God and nature placed them, 
in subordination and under the protection of the white man, wo force them 
to live under the theory of an equal freedom, and it is consequently only a 
question of time when they will be utterly exterminated. Massachusetts, 
who most rigidly imposes the burden of "impartial freedom," most rapidly 
destroys these helpless creatures, and indeed we may always determine, 
with an approximation to accuracy, by the simple application of this test, 
when the free negro of the several States will be wholly extinct. 

But while such would be the certain, however remote result of carrying 
into practice the theories of the " anti-slavery" party, so far aa the negro 
is concerned, who can estimate or even imagine the boundless and illimit- 
able calamities that would result to ourselves and the general cause of 
civilization ? To pass by the destruction and losa to the world of the single 
item of cotton, which now, directly and indirectly, furnishes subsistence to 
possibly ten millions of white men, to leave out of view rice, sugar, all 
the other great staples essential to human happiness, to abandon some 
seventy degrees of latitude in the centre of the continent to become barren 
wastes, or equally repulsive, to plant a huge African heathenism in the heart 
of the continent — to pass by all these trifling considerations, we have only 
to contemplate the "ultimate extinction of slaver*" and "impartial free- 



12 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. 

dom" with four millions of negroes in the South, as actually dreamed of 
by the lunatics of the day, with its unavoidable consequences of sccial 
equality, amalgamation, roongrelism, disease and final extinction of the 
negro element, to understand the bitterness, the unutterable and intolerable 
sense of wrong felt at the South towards those who, in their wicked ignorance 
and blind atrocity, are laboring to briDg upon them and their children a 
doom more awful than was ever yet visited on human kind since the woild 
began. True, they may not themselves comprehend it in detail or in form, 
but that instinct of self-preservation which God has planted in the heart of 
the race, in order to preserve the integrity of its organism, enables them to 
feel it, and to shrink, with overpowering disgust if not of terror, from the 
approach of such a danger. 

No matron in the Sauth ever heard the names of Garrison or John Brown 
uttered without clasping more closely the child on her bosom, not from 
any personal fear of these men, but from that instinct of self-preservation 
God has endowed her with, and which taught her that the " idea" connected 
with these names involved the extinction of her blood. 

The reader may understand this instinct by comparing the fate of St. Do- 
mingo with that of Jamaica. The French Democrats of 1792, in the National 
Convention, ignorant of the nature of the negro, and, of course, supposing 
him a man like themselves, decreed "impartial freedom" for the six hun- 
dred thousand "slaves ;" but the tweuty-Cve thousand whites of that is- 
land resisted this monstrous crime to tho uttermost. The result was that 
the negroes, stimulated by British and outsido agents, and led on by mon- 
grel chiefs, exterminated the whites, not one man, woman or child being 
left en that i jland to tell the tale of their destruction. About the same 
number of whites in Jamaica resisted "freedom" (peaceably) but at last 
were overcome, not by physical force, but by the corrupt and perverse opin- 
ions of England embodied in the Parliament, and the result of "impartial 
freedom" is social equally, amalgamation, mongrelism, and rapidly ap- 
proaching extinction of tho white blood. A few years hence this h deous 
process must complete itself, and tho white element as utterly disappear 
from Jamaica as it has from Hayti. Tho sole difference is the mode of ex- 
tinction ; in one, immediate and universal massacre, ia the other, "impar- 
tial freedom," amalgamation, mongrelism and disappearance of the lesser 
element ; and between these modes who would not prefer the former to tho 
latter ? or, who would not prefer that his children or his posterity should 
be slaughtered at once, rather than gradually rot out through the veins of 
the negro ? 

It is an instinctive perception of t his^a seemingly blind but wise instinct 
—which the mad creatures fancy " prejudice against color," that render the 
" anti-slavery" leaders of the North so faithless to their own professed bo- 
lief, and who, doubtless, would prefer death for a eon or daughter in pre- 
ference to the practical application of that belief. But what punishment 
can bo imagined that would equal the deserts of those people, •who, safe at 



THE CAUSE. 13 

home ainid a homogenous population, would force upon their own brethren 
in actual juxtaposition with four millions of negroes, doctrinea or notions 
whicb, rather than practice themselves, they would prefer deatb, or, rather 
than they should bo lived out in their own households, would, doubtless, 
prefer the massacre and utter extinction of these households ? But wicked, 
monstrously, awfully wicked as these blind creatures are, or, rather, would 
be if they had any knowledge, even the smallest atom, of that which they 
labor to accomplish, there areother3 that posterity will hold to a more fear- 
ful account still. These are they who organize a political party in the 
North to get possession of the Federal government, and to use that as an 
instrument, as they say, for the " ultimate extinction of slavery," or, in 
other words, who seek to use the common government, tho government ot! 
Virginia, the Carolmas, &c, for inflicting a doom on the people of theto 
States, whicb, rather than suffer themselves, they would prefer death I 
Fortunately for the credit of the present generation of Americans, these 
people are ignorant, blindly and utterly unconscious of tho crimes they seek 
to commit, and posterity will, therefore, in mercy draw a veil over this hor- 
rible phase in the national life, and strive to blot it out forever from tho 
national records. Summing up the foregoing, it will bo plain to the reader, 
then, that the negro, being a widely different and subordinate race or spe- 
cies from our om, is in his normal condition when in a subordinate Bocial 
position as in the South ; that the presence of this subordinate race or natu- 
ral substratum in American society, which gives us cleaier "views of our own 
natural equality, and prevents those artificial distinctions of class which so 
disfigure and degrade the nations of Europe, is the cause, or main cause, of 
the success of our Democratic institutions ; that in this fact is f out d the 
British hostility to ''Legro slavery," wbich, being in constant and irrecon- 
cilable antagonism to their system of class distinctions, necessanly impels 
them into ceaseless warfare on it ; that this hostility, though embracing all 
•of monarchical Europe, would not be or need not be dangerous to us, so 
long as our own people were uncorrupted by European teachings and hos- 
tile influences, but when, accepting these false teachings instead of the re- 
sults of their own every day experience, and large numbers of them proceed 
to form a party in the North to impose their wild delusion of supposititious 
hlack-Y?hite men and imaginary slavery on the South, they not only violate 
the spirit of the Federal compact, but they are blindly striving to destroy 
themselves — their government, their Republican institutions and civiliza- 
tion itself, as well as Ihe welfare and happiness of the people of the South — 
that, as no more extension of slavery and " impartial freedom" with negroes, 
would necessarily transform acd deform ore-ha^f of tho R=>pu'dic into tho 
condition of Mexico, Central America, &c, and end ia tho ul ima'e extinc- 
tion of the negro element, it would, therefore, in comparison, be v» tlyrnore 
humane to slaughter these negroes at once than thus to doom th< m to gra- 
dual or " ultimate extinction," through the tender mercies of the " friends 
of freedom ;" and finally, that this monstrous, world- wide and deplorable 



14 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. 

delusion, in which are wrapped up Buch hideoua and fearful possibihtiea 
being based on the fundamental falsehood tha£ the negro is amau like our- 
selves except in color, all that has been done, written or said ia the past, 
or that may be attempted in the future, must be equally false, fatal and 
deplorable, and in conflict with the eternal order ordained by the Almighty 
Creator. 



PAET II. 
THE EFFECT 



The election of Mr. Lincoln, by an anti-southern party, embodying the de- 
lusions we have been considering, and based on the assumption that south- 
ern society is fundamentally wrong and immoral, and that this society should 
be revolutionized or " abolished," with the declaration that it designed to 
use the government to accomplish this object, was the greatest insult, in- 
deed the greatest (moral) wrong ever inflicted (unconsciously) on any people 
and when, as in this case, it was done by a portion of th<ar own country- 
men, there are no terms in our language that can adequately express its 
enormity. The insults of the Abolitionists proper, for thirty years past, 
have been grievous indeed, and hard to bear. — They charged, through their 
innumerable tracts, lecturers, books and newspapers, that the eight millions 
of men arid women of the South were living in the daily practice of crime 
and immorality, and labored, with the energy of devils incarnate, to make 
the world believe their absurd statements. 

But whatever the insults and wrongs of the Abolitionists proper, except 
to corrupt and annually to entice away some hundreds of negroes from the 
South, they did not resort to any practical means to injure the southern 
people.— They confined their labors to the propagation of their foolish ab- 
stractions in respect to southern society, and when they had thoroughly im- 
pregnated the northern mind with their notions, they hoped to dissolve the 
Union by inducing the northern States to withdraw from it. When they be- 
gan their " enterprise," they expected to " enlighten and purify" the South, 
and induce the men and women of that section to " abolish" their supremacy 
ovtr their negroes, and affiliate with the subject race ; but they have long 
einco abandoned any hope of this kind, and labored solely to prepare the 
i orthern people for secession and separation from those they charge with 
tie practice of such stupendous crimes. 

So far, then, a9 they were concerned, the people of the South had no sub- 
stantial reason for complaint, for free discussion and freedom of opinion, 
however erroneous cr even insulting, should be, or might be, tolerated, so 
long as they took no practical steps to force their absurd theories and as- 



THE EFFECT. 15 

sumptions on the South. But when a political party is organized to reduce 
these theories to practice — to get possession of the common government arid 
to make that an instrument for forcing their dogmas on the people of thu 
South — to use their own government for doing that which, could it be C* t r, 
would bring a doom more horrible than any mankind have ever know.i in 
the people of that section, then, it is repeated, an insult and moral wrong 
was inflicted that has no parallel in kistoiy. — Of course such an issue, a i 
that presented by the party supporting Mr. Lincoln, could not be accepted 
or tolerated in the South, and though a few scattering votes were cast in 
the border States, no canvaes was admissable, and therefore, as regards Mr. 
Lincoln's election, the people of fourteen States were disfranchised as abso- 
lutely as if they were Cubans or Mexicans. If, for example, as predicted 
onco by Jo Smith, Mormoaism should become so dominant in tho South and 
West as to enable its followers to set up a Presidential ticket against tho 
marital relation, surely New England, untainted by the delusion, wouldnever 
consent to such a canvass within her borders. If it was assumed that tho 
present relation of the sexes was fundamentally wrong and immoral, and 
though, aa a State institution, marriage might be tolerated, but tho instant 
the husband and wife passed within federal jurisdiction, the relation should 
no longer bo recognized, and the power and prestige cf the Federal Gov- 
ernment should be cast against it — surely, under such circumstances, Mas- 
sachusetts would not only refuse a canvass of this kind wiihin her own 
limits, but would refuse to recognize a President elected on such an issue. 

ft is not necessary to enter into any proof in respect to which would be tho 
greater evil, abolition of marriage in the North or the abolition of " tlavery" 
in the South ; the perversion of tho natural relations of tho sexes, cr the cor- 
ruption of the natural relations of tho races ; but every rational mind that 
shall truly understand the unavoidable consequences wrapped up in tho 
latter, will be unable to even imagine any condition of human existence eo 
fraught with boundless and unnameable horrors as " impartial freedom" with 
negroes. But, indeed, we need only to compare Utah, with its industry, 
progress, and, however contradictory it may seem, its morality, with Jamai- 
ca, San Domingo, and the South American Republics, to understand that, 
however unnatural and monstrous may be a perversion of the natural rela- 
tions of the sexes, it does not involve such abhorrent and frightful results as 
the destruction of the natural relation of races. To tho people of tho South, 
therefore, the election of a President by the North, on the assumption that 
the relation of the races common to the Sou*h was immoral, and pledged to 
wield the government for its ultimate extinction, was, tested by their stan- 
dards, or viewed from their standpoint, as has been remarked, tho greatest 
insult and moral wrong that ever was or ever could bo inflicted on a civilized 
people. They said to themselves : " We have struggled for many years, not 
" against foreign enemies or open foes, but against our own countrymen, 
" our professed brothers, who seek to use tho government — the common 
" government of ua all— for our destruction, for tho ruin and desolation of 



1G ABOLITION AND SECESSION. 

" all that is sacred and valuable in human society 1" They eaid : — " We, of 
" the South, Lavo never asked, or dreamed of asking, any special favors from 
" tldd government Wo are planters and producers, ai.d need no favors from 
'* goverrmiet.*, arid, in oar whole Federal history of eighty years, there has 
" never beeu a single bill introduced iu C jngress tha^, directly or indirectly, 
" immediately or remotely, benefited a^y southern State or any southern 
" community, at the expense or to tho detriment of any State or community 
" at the North. That, on tho contrary, the northern States have asked and 
" have received vast benefits at our expense — above all, that Massachusetts, 
" the leader of the crusade against us— from the hour the government was 
" formed, has made it an instrument for her benefit, or the benefit of certain 
" classed of bers, at our expense; that her commerce, her manufactures, 
" fiiherie-3, &c , have drawn millions upon millions from the pockets of the 
" producing classes, through tariffs, fishing bounties and special protection ; 
" while we have neither asked for nor elesired anything whatever, and sought 
" simply to confine the government to the legitimate purposes for which it 
" was originally designed. But, worse than all this, tho North has for years, 
" in sheer wantonness, sought to damage our interests and endanger our 
" peace, and we have struggled, session after session and year after year, 
" to prevent our own government from being perverted into an instrument 
"for our ruin, until at, last they have succeeded, and elected a President 
" pledged to wield it for bringing a doom on uq or our children tho most 
" monstrous and terrible that could be inflicted on human society !" 

Such was the argument of tho southern leaders, writers, and the universal 
organs of opinion ; and should wo wonder that it was overwhelming ? It 
was not the mere election of Mr. Lincolo, by a sectional vote which virtually 
disfranchised the voter of the South ; that, they said, though an intolerable 
insult, mightha,ve been borne with, but it wag afatalsjmptom that signalled 
the deadly hostility of the Norih. With a majority in the legislative and 
judicial departments of the Government against him, Mr. Lincoln was power- 
less, and incapable of any serious mischief to the South. But tho anti- 
southern party, beginning a few years ago with half a dozen members of 
Congress, had steadily iucreased in power. It had obtained possession of 
nearly ail tho northern States, and a few sears hence, with the admission 
into the Union of the several north-western Territories, its control of the 
Senate was certain, and with its loudly proclaimed design of taking possession 
of all the departments of the Federal Government, and of remodelling tho 
Supreme Court and reversing the Dred Scott Decision, the time wa3 not 
distant when the South would be utterly helpless in the gra? p of this f-arfid 
power, thus wielding the machinery of government for the destmc ion of 
all that it cherished as sacred and valuable. It was said, " if the South 
submitted to this assumption by the North of the executive department, it 
would become a precedent for submission when the legislative and judicial 
departments were also monopolized, and, moreover, if submitted to in ono 
Presidential election, ife would ?jecome a precedent in future elections, and 



THE EFFECT. 17 

thus the strange anomaly and startling spectacle would be presented to 
the world, of a combination of northern States usurping permanent rule 
over the States of the South, and under & system baaed on the great prin- 
ciple of self-government, rule over them as absolutely as Eussia does over 
Poland, or France over Algiers 1" Nor was this danger, ominous as it was, 
or seemed to be, to the great principle of self-government, the most to be 
dreaded by the South ; for back of all this, or rather the motive for all this 
usurpation of power was the universal avowal of using it for the "ultimate 
extinction of slavery," and for forcing the white citizenship into "impartial 
freedom" with negroes I 

The terrible mistake of the northern mind, that the " South" and " slav- 
ery" are distinct entities, or that a man may be a friend to the " South" and 
an enemy to "slavery," renders multitudes utterly incapable of compre- 
hending southern opinion and southern motives of action. The truth is, 
they are inseparable — the South is " slavery" and "slavery" is the South — 
and every man opposed to one is necessarily an enemy of the other. Tho 
"South" is composed of eight millions of white citizens and four millions of 
subordinate or subject negroes — the first are naturally superior — the latter 
naturally inferior — the human law is in accord with these fundamental 
facts, and whatever the domestic and Bocial defects, the lex, loci is adapted 
to the wants and best interests of both races, for it is in harmony with their 
natural relations. Legal equality is the normal condition of the white citi- 
zenship, for they are naturally equal, and "slavery" or subordination of the 
negro is the normal condition of the negroes, for they are naturally subor- 
dinate. A change in the status of these negroes would, therefore, necessarily 
involve a change in the condition of the former, or if the normal condition 
of the negro were overthrown, it would, of necessity, involve or carry with 
it the destruction of the normal condition of the white citizenship. la other 
words, tho abolition of negro subordination involves, of necessity, the abo- 
lition of white equality— in short, the abolition of "slavery" is, to the white 
men of the South, the abolition of their own liberty. All know this instinct- 
ivelf , and feel it in the profoundest depths of their nature even when inca- 
pable of reasoning it out to their own satisfaction, and therefore every south- 
ern man, whose instincts have not been corrupted by a northern or European 
education, feels that the "anti-slavery" man of the North, consciously or 
unconsciously, is the deadly enemy of his own liberty. 

Briefly, then, the election of Mr. Lincoln was regarded by the South as the 
signal of a deliberate and fixed design, on the part of the North, to take per- 
manent possession of the common government, and to wield it as an instru- 
ment for their destruction, and as it would, in a short time, have possession 
of the Legislative and Judicial, as well as tho Executive Department, and 
the South, wi h the principle of self-government stricken down, would be 
utterly helpless in tho grasp of its deadly enemies, now was the time for re- 
sistance, and before they were bound hand and foot, and at tho mercy of 
those who loudly and universally proclaimed their design of inflic'dng a 
doom on them or their children more terrible than death itself. 



18 ABOLITION' AND SECESSION. 

PAET III. 

THE SOLUTION. 

Mr. Lincoln was elected by a party whoso organic principle was hostility 
to the South or to so-called slavery. A man might be bank or anti-bank, 
tariff or anti-tariff, indeed, might hold whatever opinion he pleased on any 
subject, if he were only hostile to " slavery" or to tho existing order of 
southern society, and was willing to mako such hostility effective by embody- 
ing it in the government. Mr. Lincoln would appoint to office none but thoso 
embodying this sentiment, and as the secession left him unrestrained by tho 
Senate, we are to presume that every official connected with the Executive 
Government is hostile to the South. The legislative majorities are equally 
pronounced in their hostility or anti-slaveryism ; thus, except the Judicial 
Department, which, under the circumstances, ia unable t o restrain the 
powers that be, the whole Federal Government is as absolutely in conflict 
with " slavery" as is the government of Massachusetts. The military forces 
are quite tbe reverse of the civil functionaries. The rank and file are wholly 
national, and probably do not differ in (abstract) sentiment with the military 
masses in conflict with tho government. Tho general officers, mostly edu- 
cated at West Point, the General-in-Chief and the distinguished gentleman 
at the head of the War Department, are doubtless entirely national in 
sentiment, aEd desire to preserve southern society or so-called slavery as 
well as the outward integrity of tho Republic. But the military power is 
subordinate to the civil, aiid if the President still embodies the principlo 
on which his party was organized, and harmonizes wiih the legislative ma- 
jorities, it matters little what may be the abstract sentiment of the former, 
and for all practical purposes, it is just the samo to the people of the South as 
if every soldier of the Republic was a furious Abolitionist. 

If those forces are overwhelming, and crush out all resistance in the 
South, and the southern people are forced to submit to the policy of an 
" anti slavery" government, with its inevitable consequences, then the end 
may beet en wi'h abaoluio certainty. It assumes that southern society ia 
wrong, that the existing relation of whites and negroes in the South ia 
immoral, thatij should be abolished, and regarding whites ai*d negroes as 
entitled to tbe same freedom within the Federal jurisdiction, it hopes, by 
cast.kg the weight and prestige of the Federal Government against the ex- 
istk'g order, that tho States will some day tv abolish" the legal supremacy 
of ttte white man, and "impartial freedom" will be the end. Here, then, 
would be, of necessity, the final or ultimate result of the great struggle— 
"universal freedom" — the degradation of twenty-five millions of white Ame- 
rican ci'izensiato legal equality wi h the tour millions of negroes. 



TIIE SOLUTION. 19 

And if one can suppose the ignorance and blindness of the North to go on, 
and able to force this awful doom upon the South, the results, to them- 
selves, would be the destruction of their own liberty, and, to a certain ex- 
tent, their civilization. If, after they had sacrificed 100,000 lives, and loaded 
their posterity with a thousand millions of debt, they will have succeeded in 
degrading themselves to a level with negroes, or as the blind and deluded 
leaders of the anti-slavery party declare, secured "impartial freedom" for 
all alike, the system organized by Washington and the men of '87 would 
be revolutionized, overthrown, and the Republic distorted into a mongrel 
assemblage, while half of the States would finally coliapso into the condi- 
tion of Mexico, Central America, &c. And instead of the southern planter 
or " slaveholder," the northern farmer and laborer would find his natural 
ally in the southern negro, and the Washingtons, Jeffersons and Jacksons of 
the South, who, with the abolition of the white supremacy, would disappear 
of course, would be replaced by negroes, mulattoea and mongrels ! 

Such is the inevitable end of anti-slavery ism, if permitted to march on and 
complete itself in "ultimate extinction of slavery," or such the inexorable 
consequences of using the Federal government to carry out the theory that 
the negro is a black-white man, and entitled to the same liberty with our- 
selves. Washington and his cotemporaries founded a Republic of white 
men for themselves and their posterity ; the successors of Washington 
have all walked in his footsteps in this respect ; the Supreme Court has 
recently declared this vital and stupendous truth, and if now, under the 
madness of tho times, this is departed from, and the Government distorted 
into a mongrel concern, including negroes, mongrels, Indians, Chinese, and 
all kinds of men, and is to use its prestige, to force the States into "impar- 
tial freedom," or into tho adoption of the anti-slavery theory, then it is 
obvious, or should be obvious to all intelligent and reflecting minds, that 
the Republic i.i 1783 id stricken at the heart, and though the outward formB 
remain, the soul will have departed, and it can only be a question of time 
when the fate of Mexico and the other mongrel Republics of this.Continent 
must become our own. 

But here it may be asked, is not the South now struggling against these 
frightful possibilities and summoning all its powers to preserve the statu 
quo—to prevent the destruction of the existing order, and the supremacy of 
the white man over the negro — in short, to preserve the principles on which 
this government was founded in 1788, and hitherto has been conducted ? 
Doubtless this is the belief of the great mass of the southern people, who, 
whatever may be the motives of the leaders or the individual ambitions, are 
impelled alone by the instinct of self-preservation, to resist the policy of a 
party that would bring upon them, or upon their posterity, such boundless 
evils as those necessarilj wrapped up in the practical realization of tho anti- 
elavery theories. But it is certain that, disregarding the anomaly of surren- 
dering the government founded by their fathers, and voluntarily giving up 
that " Union" whose 'prestige and power they mainly created, the leaders cf 



20 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. 

the South committed a frightful blunder when they abandoned the national 
flag, and attempted to set up a southern Confederacy. And if the war now 
waging should fail to force them to abandon the scheme of a separate Confed- 
eracy, and their " national independence" were really acknowledged by the 
northern people, as 'well as the European powers, then their dangers would 
at once seriously begin, and the frightful possibilities that now menace 
them, would absolutely confront them at once. 

The negro, as has been said, ia a creature of the tropics, and the laws of 
population and industrial adaptation are rapidly attracting him and his 
white guide or master into his own specific centre of existence. For seventy 
years these laws have been carrying him from the North to the South, 
from the Middle States to the transition States, from the latter to the South- 
West, and finally, they should take him into his permanent home within the 
tropics. If these laws ehould be interrupted, and the negro forcibly penned 
up permanently within his present limits, then it would only be a question of 
time when society itself would be destroyed ; when the negro would be 
massacred by the whites, or the latter would abandon the country to them, 
or the theory of the anti-slaveryites of " impartial freedom" and universal 
amalgamation would needs follow ; at all events, when the existing order 
would be demoralized and overthrown. 

England has labored for seventy years to secure this result. She, and the 
other European powers having American possessions, have destroyed the 
natural order of society in the whole tropical centre of the continent, and 
secured " impartial freedom," with its unavoidable consequences of amalga- 
mation, idleness, degradation and social rottenness, to some four millions of 
negroes and mongrels. These mongrels and free negroes are subjects, or 
they are allies of European monarchists, and covered by the guDS of France, 
England and Spain, a Southern Republic would be penned up forever within 
existing limits. Mr. Buchanan once declared that the northern Democracy 
was the sole friend of the South, and if the latter, in a wild moment of terror 
or folly, abandoned their northern friends in fear of their northern enemies, 
they would find the whole "civilized world" arrayed in deadly hostility 
against them. Indeed they would net be able to defend themselves within 
these restricted limits, for their legitimate friends in tho North thrust into 
the position of enemies, and deadly enemies in front, with their path to the 
tropics blocked up by some four millions of " free" negroes, the tools and 
allies of European monarchists, it is impossible to conceive of any people 
whose condition in the future would involve so many dangers, and that no 
possible energy, bravery, or ability on their part could neutralize or enablo 
them to escapo from. Their worst enemies in the North are simply deluded 
by British influences, while all their pecuniary interests, as well as their 
patriotism, prompt them to defend the social safety of their countrymen of 
the South, and yet we witness the stupendous folly of the latter blindly 
drifting into the arms of England, whose government has not only warred 
upon their peculiar institutions for seventy years past, but must continue to 



THE SOLUTION. 21 

do so in the future, to preserve itself or its aristocratic system of class 
distinctions. 

If the entire northern people were given tip utterly to the great " anti- 
slavery" delusion of our times, and there was not one single northern citizen 
friendly to the social order of the South, there would be less danger in their 
enmity than in the friendship of England. The most injury that they could 
do the South would be to corrupt or steal away a few negroes every year, but 
as the people who would do this really hate the " free" negro themselves, and 
the northern people will not tolerate any considerable number of them 
among them, the evil would always correct itself. But the South, penned 
up by the free negroes and mongrels of the tropics, the allies or the subjects 
of European monarchists, would be more likely — in the existing condition of 
opinion — to be invaded by the " free negroes" of Jamaica, Cuba, Hayti, &c, 
than it would extend its system in that direction. Indeed Cuba, under such 
circumstances, would be more likely to annex Florida than the latter would 
be to annex the former. While " slave grown" cotton was absolutely essen- 
tial to British and European industry, the South would have a pledge of 
peace, but when this vital want was measurably filled otherwise, and it will 
bo some day, there would be no mercy shown to a condition of society that 
underlies Democracy, andis thus in irreconcilable conflict with the principles 
of European monarchy. Three-fourths of the South at this moment is better 
suited to the labor of tho white man than to the negro. The latter rapidly 
multiplies — the term of gestation being considerably shorter in the femalo 
than in the case of the white woman, and in its grosser organism and low 
sensibility, it is saved from a multitude of contingencies affecting maternity, 
while the care and guidance of the white master add vastly or aid materially 
to the final result. Thus, while only a fourth part of the Territory of the 
South is best adapted to the industrial capacities of the negro, its increase 
is much more rapid, and the great want of the South — of the whole nation 
and of American civilization at this moment, is "slavery extension," that is, 
more territory suited to the negro and the expansion of this population. — 
Eor example : every one may see at a glance that if the planter of Maryland 
or Kentucky were permitted to emigrate with his wholo family, children and 
negroes alike, to Central America, &c, and instead of growing wheat in tho 
former, should engage in cultivating sugar, coffee, &s., in the latter, that all 
would be vastly benefited, while the lands abandoned in Maryland, resusci- 
tated and renewed by the white laborer or German immigrant, would again 
become highly productive. 

The increased production all round by this adaptation of labor, would 
greatly promote commerce, and enable the farmer on the Upper Mississippi 
and tho mechanic of the towns, to obtain their sugar and coffee at half 
their present prices. But if northern ignorance of thia great, question were 
enlightened, and the anti-slavery delusion wholly exploded, and the whole 
American people united and anxious to acquiro more southern territory, to 
get possession of Cuba, Jamaica or Hayti, it may be doubted if their whole 



22 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. 

combined force would bo sufficient to drive back England, France and Spain 
and their free negro allies in the tropics, and take possession of tbete terri- 
tories. With the rapid increase of the negro population, and " slave" terri- 
tory being the vital want of the South, how shall it fill this want, or even 
save itself, if separated from the great Democratic masses of the North and 
West ? Leaving, therefore, out of view the anomaly of being faithless to 
the work of their fathers, the abandonment of the memories of Washington, 
Calhoun and Jackson, the historic suicide in fact, and disregarding all the 
geographical impossibilities thrust in the way of this "Southern Confede- 
racy" or "National Independence," the simple separation from their friends 
in the North would place the South helplessly at the mercy of European 
monarchists and their free negro allies in the tropics. An invasion of their 
white enemies of the North proclaiming " freedom" to the negro, as proposed 
by the late Secretary of War, would be j ust as effective as a proclamation 
giving them the color of the white man, but an invasion of an army of negroes 
from Jamaica, &c, led by British or French Generals, appealing to the in- 
stincts of race, might move the whole negro population of the South. And 
when the British free negro policy has completed itself a few years hence, 
with a great negro Empire or Republic in the centre of the Continent, with 
Cuba as its northern outpost, British steamers may bridge the straits of 
Florida, and, in twenty-four hours, cast a hundred thousand negroes and 
negro mongrels on the mainland, who, with arms for the negroes, and 
arousing the instincts of race, may lay in blood and ashes the fairest portion 
of that M Southern Confederacy " now dreamed of at the South. Indeed, tho 
great danger that now confronts the nation is this 'European hostility to 
further southern advance of tho great Republic, a danger that England has 
been steadily preparing for tho last fifty years, and expended five hundred 
millions to effect, and for the men of the South to run away from the deluded 
tools of England and the Democratic masses of the North, right into the very 
jaws of this danger, is the exact counterpart of that strange and monstrous 
lunacy which is striving for " impartial freedom," and to transform the Re- 
public of Washington into a mongrel Republic. The exact thing that the 
South seeks to avoid by secession, it would bring upon itself more rapidly 
and certainly than northern delusion could. 

British writers have corrupted and deluded the northern mind into the 
belief that negroes are men like ourselves, and, therefore, the social order 
of the South is wrong, and should be abolished ; while British statesmen 
have actually practicalized this notion and " abolished" the natural order of 
society everywhere within the tropics. If, therefore, the party in power 
should force the South to submit to an anti-slavery, or, rather, anti-social 
policy, and the whole power and prestige of the government should be used 
to bring about "impartial freedom" with their negroes, and the consequent 
destruction of the civilization of the South, the end would not be reached 
as rapidly as they would themselves work out their own destruction through 
a Southern Confederacy, which, in penning up their negroes, would be ab- 



THE SOLUTION. 23 

solutely fatal and leave them to the tender mercies of the British free negro 
policy of the tropics, and even the reasonable chancea of a free negro inva- 
sion. Thua the attempt of a northern party to revolutionize the government 
of 1787 and to mongrelize the Republic, and the attempt at a " Southern 
Confederacy" are alike delusions, both of which are marching in faoal direc- 
tions, and both or either of which, permitted to proceed, must involve, not 
alone the immediate welfare of the white people of America, but the future 
civilization of the whole continent. The northern anti-southern or anti- 
elavery party ia blindly striving to include the negro and subject races into 
the ranka of citizenship, and, if it could succeed, of course it would demor- 
alize and overthrow the only white man'a government on tbia continent, and 
thus render Democratic institutions impossible, while a " Southern Confed- 
eracy," which cut itself loose from the Democratic masses of the North and 
West, would find itself penned up by England and four millions of free ne- 
groes in front, and thus, in its madness and folly, bring upon the southern 
people that very destruction which it seeks to avoid by secession from the 
North. 

In conclusion, then, it will be apparent to all honest and patriotic minds, 
whatever Providence may have in store for us in the future, that the present 
generation of Americans are certain to bring upon themselves terrible and 
wide-spread calamities, unless they abandon the paths in which they are 
now so blindly marching. If they follow the lead of anti-slavery ism, and, 
reversing the Dred Scott decision, mongrelize government, they will, then 
of course, undermine, and finally destroy, the Republic founded by Washing- 
ton, as well as work out the ruin and desolation of southern society, and if a 
" Southern Confederacy" is permitted to exist, it can, under existing cir- 
cumstances, only increase the chances and hasten the terrible dangers sus- 
pended over the latter. 

There i3 plainly, therefore, but a single straightforward course, the utter 
abandonment of political anti-slaveryism and a return to the principles of 
1788— to a government of white men, made by white men for themselves and 
their posterity forever. With a email negro population in the Nortp, whicb, 
under our mistaken theories, are rapidly perishing, a mongrel government, 
or the abstraction of " impartial freedom" is of little or no practici.1 conse- 
quence ; but to the people of the South, with four millions of negroes who 
are multiplying even faster than themselves, a mongrel government that 
admits negroes to citizenship or into the political system, invohep, of course 
their utter destruction. But with the Dred Scott decision incorporated in 
direct terms in the Constitution, and a government of white men thus ren- 
dered secure in the future, peace, progress, fraternity, nationality, and 
American civilization will be placed on foundations immovable and ever- 
lasting. It ia our destiny, doubtless, to extend our boundaries to tho 
equa+or, and, perhaps, over the whole continent, and with a government 
of white men we shall preserve the purity of our blood, the um>y of our na- 
tionality with the integrity of our Republican system, and save American 



24 ABOLITION AND SECESSION. 

civilization from the blight ai;d desolation now resting on the mongrel Re- 
publics South of U3, and which God haa decreed forever, as the penalty for 
disregarding the distinctions and natural relations of races. 

It is wholly a question of race, and " secession," " State Rights," &c, 
mere means or modes of defeneo against " anti-slavery" delusion. The 
South, the Supreme Court, the Democracy, and every administration, from 
Washington to Buchanan, have held this to bo a government of white men, 
and negroes no part of our political society, or element in our political sys- 
tem. The party now in power, on the contrary, construes the Federal Con- 
stitution to include negroes aa eqaally entitled to freedom, and, while it 
recognizes " slavery" as a State institution, it is pledged to reverse the 
Dred Scott decision, and secure "impartial freedom" or common citizenship 
for all races within Federal j urisdiction. Between these constructions of 
the Constitution lies the whole future of Republican institutions and Amer- 
ican civilization. If the former prevails, if the Dred Scott decision is to be 
the rule, and this ia to be a white government in the future as it has been in 
the past, and the liberty and civilization of the South are thus rendered 
secure -forever, then there need be no northern armies raised to " save the 
Union," for the men of the South will save such a Union as that themselves. 
But if the latter construction is to prevail, if the Federal Constitution is to 
be construed to include negroes, if this government is to be revolutionized, 
and the white citizenship degraded into " impartial freedom" with + he sub- 
ject races of this Continent, then all the armies of the world combined will 
not save such a Union as that, for the eight millions of men, women and 
children of the South will prefer extermination rather than amalgamation 
or " impartial freedom" with their negroes. And this ia the question now 
to be decided forever : the Dred Scott decision and a government of whito 
men, or " impartial freedom" and a mongrel Republic, with the eternal, in- 
evitable consequences of immediate ruin of society in the South, and "ulti- 
mate extinction" of liberty and Democratic institutions in the North. 



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